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THE SMITHS: THROUGH BEING COOL

Annie Lennox, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson—if 1983’s music had any message at all, it was: “Be beautiful, be hip, be cool—be like me.” New music has inevitably led up to the same indulgences as old music. Well, that was last year. You can forget that now.

June 1, 1984
Merle Ginsberg

THE SMITHS: THROUGH BEING COOL

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